Voters remain critical of the news coverage of Donald Trump and think the media is still showing the same bias against him that it displayed during the presidential campaign.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that nearly half (48%) of all Likely U.S. Voters believe most reporters are biased against the president-elect. Only 12% think they are biased for Trump, while 31% feel most reporters try to be fair and balanced. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

A closer look finds that 74% of Republicans and a plurality (47%) of voters not affiliated with either major political party think most reporters are biased against Trump. Even Democrats think most reporters are more likely to be biased against Trump (26%) than biased for him (16%).

But 47% of voters in President Obama’s party believe most reporters try to be fair and balanced, a view shared by 29% of unaffiliateds and only 15% of GOP voters.

The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports on January 2, 2017. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Among voters who don’t trust the political news they are getting, 55% think most reporters are biased against Trump. Forty-five percent (45%) of voters who do trust political news feel that way, too, but nearly as many (40%) say that most reporters are fair and balanced.

Forty-six percent (46%) of both Republican and unaffiliated voters rate the media coverage of the president-elect as poor, compared to 32% of Democrats.

Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters who Strongly Approve of the job Obama is doing think most reporters try to be fair and balanced. Among voters who Strongly Disapprove of the job the president is doing, 89% feel most reporters are biased against Trump.

Eighty-one percent (81%) of voters who turn to Fox News for political coverage think most reporters are biased against the president-elect. Forty-six percent (46%) of CNN watchers and 60% of those who prefer MSNBC for political news believe most reporters try to be fair and balanced.

The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports on January 2, 2017. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology

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